Tokyo International Forum – Giant Vierendeel Truss: Presentation Drawings

Precast Vierendeel box beams, six meters deep, spanning 50 meters at a height of 20 metters. The beams are pierced by huge chrysanthemum-shaped voids, which are illuminated.

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.

Two drawings of the prototype house, one with two of its elevations and the other with two sections.

Three preliminary color perspective sketches of the interior space of Convention Hall A; the first gives a rather complete but roughly drawn overview, while the other two provide the basic elements of space, with focus on the Vierendeel beams with ...

Four photographs of the perspective view of the Convention Hall interior, an enormous room 50 meters by 70 meters, with large columns. The roof is supported by Vierendeel box beams, pierced by giant chrysanthemum voids, which are illumunated.